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[C.C.]

What do you do about bunnies munching on hosta shoots? I was out in the front garden weeding and I noticed the tip of the hosta shoots have been eaten off...obviously rabbits.  Can I put something on the shoots to make them less palitable?

[CLKD]

I put empty hanging baskets upside down to protect tender plants which is OK until they grow taller.  Here it's slugs and snails. 

I have a good recipe for bunny stew 

We have a mouse raiding the rat trap 

[jaypo]

Was fab watching all the different birds up in Scotland,I'm going to love living there,a blackbird at the very top of a tall tree and he was singing his little heart out,it was beautiful 

[CLKD]

It must be a break in broods 'cos our male blackbird was singing too 

[jaypo]

It was lovely at 7pm last night but not quite so lovely at 5.30am 

[CLKD]

 

[CLKD]

Found a female orange-tip Butterly this afternoon,  basking in the  .  DH took photos as we have never seen a female in our garden, plenty of males around May/June.  I really need to get out more 

[jaypo]

Baby wood pigeon crash landed onto my OHs car this morning (which was parked up in garden) it sat there for ages,watched it on the camera,hope it was ok

[jaypo]

This is just an update on that pig farm story

By now, you probably will have seen our latest investigation into an intensive pig farm called P&G Sleigh pig unit. A lot has happened since we conducted the investigation. Here’s an overview of what unfolded.
Philip Sleigh, the owner of the farm, resigned as the Chairman of the Pigs Standard Setting Committee of Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), a public body to which he had been appointed as a Board Member by the Scottish Government.
The farm was dropped by the QMS assurance scheme.
Our investigation was published in an article in The Times, alongside a leader article titled ‘The Times view on animal welfare failings: Cruel Country’.
Tesco and Lidl both dropped the farm.
The Independent, the Scottish Daily Mail, and many more newspapers published articles covering the story, including the front page of Scotland’s most widely-read paper.

[CLKD]

How will that help the piggies 

Did the pigeon recover?

[jaypo]

It will be a blow for them that Tesco and Lidl no longer use them
Couldn't find the pigeon anywhere,I'm hoping it made it to a tree

[CLKD]

I don't buy much meat from supermarkets as we have good butchers in our towns: born and bred on the farm, the butcher almost knows the animal's name and number when we buy our joints 

Jackdaws: everywhere  . 1 magpie.  Several sparrows. Robins.  Blackbirds all over. 1 pied wagtail 

[daska86]

After several years of not seeing any, starlings have returned and are ferociously eating everything in the feeders. Also a magpie keeps visiting so I haven't seen any little birds for a few days.😞

[Taz2]

The little ones will still be around. We have a wide selection of birds in our tiny garden and four resident teenage magpies. They are bullies but the smaller birds manage to cope well. I'll be grateful next year when they start breeding as they'll be busier then! At the minute they are full of teenage energy and use it up kicking out at all and sundry 

It's great the starlings are holding their own. I hate them being on the red list. We have nineteen babies in the garden today - we fence off a small part of the garden each spring so the babies can be fed and taught how to bathe etc. safe from the cats. I love the starlings. So entertaining and their mimicry of other birds, car alarms, whistles etc. is amazing.

Taz x

[CLKD]

Our robin liaises with the magpies: follows me around the plot or even sits outside the windows, bobbing his head.  As soon as I put meal worms out, he flies off.  Starlings arrive  .  He's in their PAY!  Same with male blackbird who has a starling behind ........ blackbirds get quite close especially the 3 fledglings, starlings muscle in.  Sparrows however, dart in, pick up and fly off :-)

2 hogs huffing on the patio at 11.15 p.m.